Ravello Systems today announced the public beta of its service
which enables developers to overcome their internal data center capacity
constraints and leverage the unlimited resources of the public cloud to
develop and test their applications faster and in a more robust manner.
Ravello instantly enables developers to replicate their existing
applications, without any changes, and deploy them to any public or
private cloud.

Ravello eliminates contention of resources and ensures developers
always have access to replicas of production instances so that they can
collaborate, work in parallel and be much more efficient - all at a
fraction of the cost of traditional approaches. Developers can now
create blueprints, and provision as many instances of the multi-VM
production replica application as they need for development and test
purposes, on-demand. In addition, developers can easily plug Ravello
into their continuous integration system so on every code check-in, the
system automatically provisions multiple replicas of the production
application and runs integration and system tests in parallel.

"Enterprises looking for a more cost-effective way to develop
and test their applications are increasingly looking to the public cloud
as the answer. Yet, they're held back by the difficulty of making that
transition between private datacenter and public cloud because of
differences in infrastructure and, often, significant changes to their
code," said Donnie Berkholz, analyst, RedMonk. "Ravello's novel approach
to providing a consistent environment has the potential to enable more
businesses to benefit from the agility of the public cloud without all
of its costs."

“Our organization runs production deployments on-premise but we
lack capacity internally for application development and test,” said
Sreesan P.D., Systems Engineer, Ideamine Technologies. “So we tried
using the cloud to develop our multi-tier application, but had to make
extensive changes and ended up with two completely different
environments. With Ravello, we get exactly the same environment in the
cloud, and can now develop and test our application on replicas of our
production – all with the unlimited resources of the cloud.”

Ravello’s service is powered by the industry’s first cloud
application hypervisor that consists of three core technology components:

·an IO overlay that consists of software
defined networking and storage, enabling any networking topology on top
of any cloud; and,

·an application framework that enables a
monolithic definition of an end-to-end mutli-VM application including
all of its infrastructure.

“Enterprise customers look for innovative ways to use the Cloud
for development and test and then deploy their applications back on
premise,” said Ven Shanmugam, senior manager of corporate strategy at
Rackspace. “Ravello Systems enables customers to leverage the Rackspace
Open Cloud ™ for their development. We are excited to have
Ravello Systems as part of our Cloud Tools Marketplace and to further
accelerate enterprise adoption of our open cloud services.”

“Traditional cloud management vendors have been positioning the
cloud as a journey. That’s because with existing cloud management tools,
it is,” said Navin R. Thadani, SVP Products at Ravello Systems.
“Ravello’s unique technology enables organizations to encapsulate
multi-VM applications and deploy them instantly on any cloud without
making any changes. Development and test is a classic use-case for
developers to start using the public cloud today. We are pleased to open
up our beta and look forward to working with the extended developer
community.”

Ravello Systems today also announced that it has closed its second
round of funding bringing the total funds raised to $26 million.

Founded in 2011, Ravello Systems is the industry’s first Cloud
Application Hypervisor provider. With Ravello, enterprises can
encapsulate their multi-VM applications and run them anywhere –
on-premise or in any cloud – without making any changes whatsoever, and
thereby implement a true hybrid cloud. Ravello is offered via an easy to
use Software-as-a-Service and enables developers, devops and IT to use
the unlimited resources of the public cloud to develop and test their
applications. Ravello Systems is backed by top tier VCs including
Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
For more information, visit www.ravellosystems.com.

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